The essential moral self

Cognition

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 159-171

  Strohminger, Nina ^a   Nichols, Shaun ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Morality; Numerical identity; Personal identity; Self

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IDENTITY; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MORALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; AMNESIA; INTUITION; MEMORY; PERCEPTION;

MORALITY; NUMERICAL IDENTITY; PERSONAL IDENTITY; SELF;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 84893493381     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.12.005     Document Type: Article

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